to the police. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people who go into iraq. see. the full horrors of a cia drone strike. e.u. officials head to washington the truth about america's spying program which millions of europeans have found themselves targeted by also it's worse for obama not to have known who's who's running the show the country's leadership seems to be rather unclear on what the national security agency is actually doing as we report later here on the program. the syrian government dismantles its chemical production facilities but the disarmament process in the balance some groups continue to defy the deal also has water it's nice. here

before it's passed on the news we lubricated the smiles of the u.s. military the painful force feeding of detainees at guantanamo bay. we have an exclusive report from behind. with the top headlines of the week and today this is the weekly with me rule research welcome to the program putting a human face to america's so-called war on terror in pakistan a family of drone strike victims testified in front of congress this week having lost their grandmother in what was reported as a precision strike on militants they've been because why their home was targeted in the first place. reports from the briefing. this was the first time actual victims

of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of gross strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though heart was what these drone victims were appealing to on a par with twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed while picking vegetables in the garden. i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases but when this kind of run the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not

afraid of being bombed at any moment. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america i have no idea why our village in my house was targeted. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers to why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was killed when the drone hate i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand vocalisation of. music. losing in

a concentration. being picked on the work trying to. do so on has long been for someone driving the s.u.v. but this is being targeted and at the same time did nor to be in a position to leave the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there is therefore a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will take notice in washington i'm going to check out and that my mana b.b. was among the up to nine hundred civilian fatalities estimated by rights groups since drone strikes began in two thousand and four in pakistan and amnesty international report published just last week now saying that these unlawful killings could amount to that of war crimes something that activists brian becker tends to agree with if nothing shocks the conscience of the congress like this nothing ever will we see that this is a criminal action by the u.s.

government those drone pilots who carried out the direct violent deaths of this sixty seven year old grandmother they should be arrested and so should their superiors it's not acceptable for a lawless program like the drone attacks that targeted killings of people all over the world by the united states government unilaterally deciding who lives and who dies it's not acceptable to have a series of endless a partial apologies or compensations for the people they call collateral damage the program is inherently criminal it's outside the laws of the international community it's outside the un charter the united states government is the only government in the world that dares to irrigate to itself the right to carry out targeted assassinations of whoever it decides should be killed. our still to come here on r t striking down the peace process a u.s. drone attacks excuse me kills a top taliban leader who is poised to hold key talks with the pakistani government

. are for now here on r t a group of angry e.u. officials have been spending this week in washington d.c. seeking the truth about america's global surveillance operations europe has stressed repeatedly that spying is not what friends do and such activities will not be tolerated or germany sent its own delegation to the white house to investigate the revelations that the u.s. tapped chancellor merkel's personal mobile phone mounting questions on criticism have pushed president obama to launch a review of the country's intelligence operations and it seems europeans were the only ones kept in the dark over the n.s.a.'s practices. let's give you some examples here on r.t. secretary of state john kerry he claimed that both he and president obama were not aware of the things the n.s.a. was doing saying that the agency tends to run on autopilot because it has the technology and the ability to do so now contrast this statement with out of the

n.s.a. chief keith alexander he said his agency is told who to spy on by policymakers alexander also pointing out that u.s. ambassadors were among those ordering the snooping ray mcgovern a former cia officer and a seven different u.s. administrations says if indeed president obama really doesn't know what the n.s.a. is up to it raises some very serious questions. i think in many ways it's worse for obama not to have known who's who's running the show it where does the buck stop so equally bad is that he knew or he didn't and now this back filling in this real vendetta between the n.s.a. chiefs who were shown to be very fast and loose with the truth. alexander for one and then clapper who. separatists who is it made it to lying to the congress felony that they are to sort of try to defend themselves by telling everyone they

told the president every i don't know whom to believe because both sides have been very sparing with the truth. and in it so it's for the truth about america's spying germany has reached out to the one person behind the global scandal that edward snowden a green party m.p. has met with the fugitive whistleblower here in moscow to discuss his assistance and a possible investigation into the n.s.a.'s operations he says the words of the u.s. for now can no longer be trusted. basically he will because i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia and n.s.a. so i'm sure he could tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information i also think that the organization including n.s.a.

chief keith alexander aren't always being truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. and a lawyer who's been helping edward snowden in his attempts to avoid u.s. prosecution explained why his client will have big difficulties aiding the german officials that despite his overall willingness to help. of course edward snowden can't leave russia because he's got refugee status here and if he travels to a different country he loses it so if germany has any questions for mr snowden is could be resolved through treaties exist between germany and russia and edward wouldn't have to travel there to testify the level of danger is still high we hear comments from the us government almost on a daily basis that edward is still on the wanted list we've done everything possible to ensure his security but as far as surveillance and wiretapping goes i

wouldn't comment on that because those who have been following the situation around snowden know what u.s. intelligence is capable of. you can always log onto our to dot com for the latest updates the videos and the expert analysis on the n.s.a. scandal. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today the chemical disarmament of syria is now reaching its first milestone this week as the conflict stricken country successfully dismantled most of its active toxin facilities or two sides though couldn't be reached by inspectors due to heavy ongoing fighting in those areas and syria now has up to about two weeks to agree with the world's chemical weapons watchdog on a roadmap to destroying all of its remaining toxic agents from damascus artie's paula sileo reports dangerous and dirty that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention a brutally tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides

a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited all declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we eliminate. whatever we can but you know this is a very complicated the process complications filled by so called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest problems the team faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate for inspectors have managed to visit twenty one of twenty three sites and although they haven't verbally blamed the rebels damascus insists it's doing its share until now. those. sites being visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling. the

groups kill them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission ever undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapons stockpile in the midst of a civil war with syria actually stopped producing chemical weapons in one thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed off two rockets with seven gets fired at damascus as suburbs those responsible are still at large the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program is the middle of next year by then damascus must have destroyed or removed its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances policy r.t. damascus just a few minutes away on the program here on r.t.

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military though continues to defend the controversial practice as. reports from inside the notorious prison. every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own on torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right now we have the court system determined that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire.

life is a blast. there is water and it's nice there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy delta house is a hospital and library and this is also a place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it and we give the patient a choice that they want to have. which is agent they will numb the area or if they want to lubricate the tube.

most of our patients have been using all of the will. in fact some of our patients are so used to this they will. described which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described it as torture the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world have said it feel strange i've never heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even believe in what they're saying anyway because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me request declined the prisoners

who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. tied our hands to the chair they shackled our legs to the ground they. struck across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining at get most only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalist and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was it a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to

point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank heavens meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem that detainees have behaved better there will be rewarded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and. cuba are becoming you're not from moscow a single u.s. drone strike has destabilized the entire peace process in pakistan it's killed the

leader of the country's taliban group who was preparing to negotiate security forces are now on high alert across the country over fears of a militant reprisal one local expert told us the pakistani people are the only ones who end up paying the price for the drone strike. the prime minister of pakistan was involved in d.c. only a week back and he had spoken to president obama taken him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because it. had made it if precondition the drone attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop they continued so i knew what he was going to suffer it is going to be the people of pakistan and not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any of taught it to weld up their time here on the program not start with the french government that its proposed eco tax is now become something of

a ticking time bomb thousands hitting the streets calling for its immediate scrapping. i. think that's where you can see the anger and frustration in the french region of brittany where violence erupted between protesters and security forces over this new eco measure tear gas and water cannons were used to break up the crowds that did fight back with rocks and bottles the eco tanks in poses levies on trucks weighing more than three and a half tons but it's been suspended amid mounting anger only drive companies out of business. and the man suspected of carrying out a gun attack at los angeles international airport has been charged with murder prosecutors say the death penalty could be sought for told c.n.n. he stormed the terminal on friday killing a security guard and wounding several others meanwhile the airport is back to operating normally now after the chaos which saw more than a thousand flights delayed or canceled. and in northern yemen four days of

conflict between rival muslim clans have killed fifty five so according to a spokesman for one of the earlier in the week shiite rebels attacked the town of which was held by their rivals the country's army you said a ceasefire came into effect friday yet the bloodshed continued aside from domestic problems struggles to contain one of the most dangerous branches which recently tried to bomb international airlines now in the wake of the biting recession many italians are complaining about the way they're being forced to live by their austerity driven government but that's nothing compared to the misery certain immigrants in the country now find themselves in and you go to this going to actually went to meet on some of those who found themselves in squalid conditions no better than the ones they left behind. some call it a city within a city others a refugee ghetto it's like we're still in africa refugees from four african

countries over twelve hundred people crammed inside a former university building in rome now known as palace meeting. here but. we weren't allowed to film inside the room spread dr treating the refugees agreed to describe the conditions they live in but i think. there are thirty five tabs and thirty five showers and eighty percent of them need to be repaired the beds are all sin in very bad condition actually a lot of people sleep in cardboard thousands of refugees have been flocking to italy mainly across the mediterranean in search of a better life but the country's only economic problems including the worst recession since the second world war provide very little opportunity at the same time. obliges all refugees to stay in the country where they receive asylum those who manage to avoid registration go further north as illegals but those who don't

want local shelters are running out of space for all the newcomers without a job or even a place to sleep where do you go for the majority it's the train stations the meeting point for possible work or some cash during the day and makeshift shelter at night which is on a baseline sometimes immigrants from different countries fight each other like the old man eons and those from bangladesh for example don't want this area. there are a lot of them here of various nationalities at first they came from southern countries now also from eastern once the whole region is full of immigrants. or polish or a dizzying gadget and very strong activity but live well also you know the. solve this problem the e.u. has pledged. gave an additional thirty million euros for italy to build more shelters for the refugees but it's unlikely was will help create new jobs or ease the full of immigrants all together. and on the website.

you wouldn't want to mess with these guys check out the muscle flagship of russia's pacific fleet in the country's most advanced nuclear power destroyer the now in the waters of the mediterranean but what are they doing there mission described to some extent on our website right now. hundreds of tons a treat in the making here in the invision section of our website it's a visual tour of a plantation where you can dive straight into a sea of. the program here one has already been to the north pole and in just a few days it'll be sent all the way into orbit it's true we are really talking about that of the olympic flame continues to snake its way towards the. head of winter games it's passing through the towns and cities of the world's biggest country and the torch is currently touring russia's northern regions to wrap up

this news bulletin with some of the pictures of this week's highlights of the record breaking journey don't forget you can always follow the flame. it is good to have you with us on this sunday here on our. taking the floor in venture capital. the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussions scoring to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine

percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an incident of racism needs to be banned then we've got to get rid of the word blanket because they gave the native americans disease till blankets to kill them i and they block their land with beads so we've got to get rid of that word to remember the separate drinking fountains and segregated buses based on race in america yes so we can't say those words anymore either or we might just possibly remember something bad which could lead to the ultimate horror of the modern western world unpleasant thoughts we see a lot of western countries the term citizen becoming offensive because it makes resident foreigners legal or illegal feel like second class people well compared to actual citizens legally you kind of are if you're offended that you are not treated

as a citizen of seattle why not assimilate become a citizen of the united states join the team but that's just my opinion. thank. you for that welcome to the capital this week the british prime minister david cameron is being told to think outside of the box and out of his bulletin i should say and order to drum up some much needed cash for the country details in just a minute on that what was also the first corner eighty seven when the law is the story will be discussed in the implications of that could be used to call more in-house the best images showing thomas he's always in the business press to tell us what he's been up to the ball by and gave us your bit of the boost this week it's also supposed to come with that stuff to talk about mr cameron. so he's hoping to attract muslim money by becoming the first country to issue an exam

a bond outside of the muslim wild the u.k. hopes to offer a two hundred million pound islam friendly bond known as a cook as early as next it it will conform to the law which bans interest and gambling now the prime minister is also planning to launch a new index boy care explains exactly why mr cameron is so we get to this part of the world the british muslims contribute at least thirty billion pounds to the economy while u.k. banks offer more islamic services than in any other western country in fact islamic funding has propped up some of the capital's largest developments including the shot on the olympic village but critics say the welcoming approach doesn't go beyond investment british politicians have in the past rejected proposals to recognise shari'a lower in certain areas with large muslim populations while the recent debate in parliament.